https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=426174 A court may summon relevant evidence at any stage under Section 540 CrPC, and the power becomes mandatory where the material is essential to a just decision. In this matter, bank records and the bank official's testimony were considered necessary to determine whether the credited amount had moved from the complainant's account to the accused's account. The order summoning the records and the official was treated as a proper exercise of discretion, and the objection that it merely filled lacunae was rejected. The High Court therefore found no ground to interfere and upheld the summoning order. en-us Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:44:31 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=426174 A court may summon relevant evidence at any stage under Section 540 CrPC, and the power becomes mandatory where the material is essential to a just decision. In this matter, bank records and the bank official's testimony were considered necessary to determine whether the credited amount had moved from the complainant's account to the accused's account. The order summoning the records and the official was treated as a proper exercise of discretion, and the objection that it merely filled lacunae was rejected. The High Court therefore found no ground to interfere and upheld the summoning order. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=426174